August Strindberg Quotes

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

August Strindberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: January 22, 1849 - May 14, 1912

Topics

MenBuyExpectSitYourOffer

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

HealthBestCareAmericaVeterans

I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.

Joe Morton

ThinkBurdenHumanBeingI Think

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Jenna Morasca

MarriageTruthPeopleSickTruth Is

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Melvyn Bragg

MusicEverythingOperaArtsOnce

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

Maya Hawke

SchoolIndependenceReachCareer

Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

John Murray

EducationHopePeopleOutNo Hope

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

John Oliver

MoneySomeoneYouBackKnowNever

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

ChildrenPeoplePresentBetterWay

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Russell Hoban

GodEyesEyeBlindSeeingLook

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Martin Parr

WorkIronyCourseElements

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Minnie Pearl

LifeBusinessGrowYouThroughUp

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

Cliff Richard

TimeArtYourselfWorldAdviceYou

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